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Two-Lane Blacktop

This article is about the film. For the song, see Two-Lane Blacktop (song). For the band, see Two Lane Blacktop.
Two-Lane Blacktop
Theatrical poster
Directed byMonte Hellman
Screenplay by
Story byWill Corry
Produced byMichael S. Laughlin
Starring
CinematographyGregory Sandor[1]
Jack Deerson
Edited byMonte Hellman
Production
company
Michael Laughlin Enterprises
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • July 7, 1971 (1971-07-07)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$875,000

Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 American road film directed and edited by Monte Hellman, from a screenplay by Rudy Wurlitzer and Will Corry. It stars musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird in the leading roles.[2] The sparse, existentialist plot follows a group of street racers during a cross-country race through the American Southwest.

Universal Pictures commissioned the film in the wake of Easy Rider's monumental success.[3] Director Monte Hellman, who had previously worked in low-budget and independent films, developed the screenplay with Wurlitzer, then-known mainly as an underground writer, during an actual cross-country road trip. Filming took place in locations around the Southwest between August and October 1970.

On initial release, the film received generally positive reviews, but was not a commercial success.[4] Over the years, it developed the reputation of a sleeper hit and a cult classic,[5][4] and has been reevaluated as a major work of the New Hollywood movement.[6][4] In 2012, the US Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[7][8][9]

  1. ^ "Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)". AFI Catalog. American Film Institute. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  2. ^ Ford, Greg (1971). "Two-Lane Blacktop Michael S. Laughlin Monte Hellman". Film Quarterly. 25 (2): 53–55. doi:10.2307/1211543. ISSN 0015-1386. JSTOR 1211543.
  3. ^ Gaydos, Steven (2021-07-07). "'Two-Lane Blacktop's' Original Publicist on Why the Monte Hellman Classic Has Been Misunderstood for 50 Years". Variety. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
  4. ^ a b c Gaydos, Steven (2021-07-07). "'Two-Lane Blacktop's' Original Publicist on Why the Monte Hellman Classic Has Been Misunderstood for 50 Years". Variety. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
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  6. ^ Davidson, James (2014-06-12). "15 Sleeper Films Of The New Hollywood Era That Are Worth Seeing". Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
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